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County Board District 6 (Town) |
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by Dan Veaner
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Tuesday, 09 August 2005 |
This chart compares the candidates running in the general election for the District 6 seat on the County Board. Tom Todd is stepping down this year, leaving the seat open. Most of the Town of Lansing votes for this seat. This chart compares Republican Mike Sigler and Democrat Hurf Sheldon. [ View District 10(Village of Lansing, NE Ithaca)] |
| |   | Mike Sigler |
|   | Hurf Sheldon |
| | Lived in Lansing | Under 1 Year. Plans to stay, 2 children, the oldest entering Kindergarten in the Fall | 26 Years. 4 children, 2 grandchildren. | | Qualifications | - Ran for NYS Assembly in 2002
- NYS Parks Commissioner
- Fresh voice, new perspectives
- Good relations with town board
| - Past Town Democratic Chair
- Has helped other candidates run successfully
- Has worked with individual board members on specific issues
- Participated in many facets of Lansing community
including Lansing Ambulance, Cub Scouts, LSP. - Started and runs Lansing Rec. Sailing program
| | Issues | - Wants responsible tax cuts
- Goal to limit the tax levy
- Wants three year assessment cycle
- Thinks Lansing should get back its fair share of property tax dollars from the County
- Favors proposal to create a County Executive
- Top priorities are to support Sheriff's Department and infrastructure
- Supports pro active encouragement of economic development
- Lake access
| - Planning for the future
- Tax fairness
- Lack of past investment in infrastructure will
impact future costs - Keep library viable
- Public Lake Access - County should be involved
with future of nearby open lakefront such as cement plant, Camp Barton, etc
| | Goals | - Cut taxes responsibly
- Better support for Sheriff's Department
- Repair and strengthen County infrastructure
- Help steer growth
- Give Lansing a strong voice in the County legislature
| - To represent Town of Lansing interests via cooperation
with town board and the people of Lansing - Long term planning to prepare for and manage impact
of growth on County needs - Consider revenue based taxes to limit asset based
tax increases for tax fairness - Look at needed infrastructure investments to limit
future costs - combat "benign neglect" of county
facilities that will result in burdening the future
| | Why are you the best candidate? | - Ability to communicate ideas, make them reasonable enough to get along with the other side
- Knows Lansing's issues and is a new voice
- Committed to the community
| - Has life experience - raised 4 children, seen the effects of growth
on different communities - Worked at Cornell for over
25 years -moved up through self improvement and hard work - Vietnam Veteran
- Get along well with people,
able to listen, comminicate and promote Lansing concerns to the County Board
| | Day Job | Works for Park Outdoor Advertising. Background and past jobs in print and broadcast journalism. | Director of Research Systems at The Program of Computer Graphics, a graduate research facility. Originally started at Cornell as a research technician in Plasma physics. |
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